News

In Syria, safe spaces for women and girls provide more than protection

calendar_today09 October 2018

Girls and women in Syria’s Areesha camp have flocked to UNFPA-supported safe spaces for health and social services, including literacy courses. ©UNFPA Syria
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News

UN Youth Strategy commits support to a new generation of leaders

calendar_today25 September 2018

Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake (left, with UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen at a pre-launch panel), opened the launch with a call to listen to young people who have “broken barriers and shaken systems.” © UNFPA/Usenabasi Esiet
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News

Ethiopian girls learn the skills they need to thrive – and secure their independence

calendar_today29 August 2018

Salia, now 18, tends to animals to provide for herself and her family. Just two years ago, Salia thought she would be a child bride. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw
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Young Persons with Disabilities

Publication date

Jul 2018

Author

UNFPA

Publication

Young Persons with Disabilities

Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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News

HIV prevention efforts must reach most vulnerable – adolescents, young women, LGBTQIA+ communities

calendar_today23 July 2018

“Condoms will just disappear from our homes and we will know they are being used,” said 'Maneo Ramabanta, in Lesotho, where HIV prevention efforts must reach vulnerable adolescents. © UNFPA Lesotho/Violet Maraisane
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Events

22nd International AIDS Conference

calendar_today23 July - 27 July 2018

location_onAmsterdam, the Netherlands

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News

Breaking taboos around sexual and reproductive health in rural Georgia

calendar_today21 June 2018

Young people from the Kakheti region of Georgia participate in peer education training on gender equality and reproductive health and rights. © UNFPA Georgia
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Video

Architect Not Child Bride: A Syrian Girl’s Dream

calendar_today19 June 2018

Architect Not Child Bride: A Syrian Girl’s Dream

Architect Not Child Bride: A Syrian Girl’s Dream

Since its opening in 2015, over 1,800 young women and men in Zaatari refugee camp have benefitted from trainings on reproductive health and gender-based violence at the Questscope-UNFPA Youth Centre. This is the story of 16-year-old Yanal, who became an advocate against child marriage after learning about its harms at the UNFPA-supported youth centre in Zaatari. A film by UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert.

Video

Fatima: A song to end obstetric fistula

calendar_today30 May 2018

Fatima: A song to end obstetric fistula

Fatima: A song to end obstetric fistula

This song was produced by a Yemeni youth group. It is based on the true story of an obstetric fistula survivor, ‘Fatima,’ who was successfully treated with the support of UNFPA.

News

Over coffee, young people in the Maldives discuss sexual and reproductive health

calendar_today24 April 2018

Young women and men come to Safe Space sessions in equal numbers and with equal levels of interest in discussing topics that, otherwise, most don't talk about with anyone else. © UNFPA Maldives/Ashwa Faheem
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